Monday, May 31, 2010

Titanic collection of maritime memorabilia to go under the hammer - This Is Mablethorpe

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Titanic collection of maritime memorabilia to go under the hammer
This Is Mablethorpe
"I got my chance years later when we went on the QE2 across the Atlantic. "About 30 years ago, I started thinking I'd like to have a book or a picture of a ...

Trouble in high-profile paradise - WA today

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Trouble in high-profile paradise
WA today
She's since discovered the cut-out - of Challis popping a bottle of champagne, taken on a QE2 cruise - is ideal for any celebration. ...

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Trouble in high-profile paradise - Brisbane Times

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Trouble in high-profile paradise
Brisbane Times
She's since discovered the cut-out - of Challis popping a bottle of champagne, taken on a QE2 cruise - is ideal for any celebration. ...

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Trouble in high-profile paradise - Sydney Morning Herald

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Trouble in high-profile paradise
Sydney Morning Herald
She's since discovered the cut-out - of Challis popping a bottle of champagne, taken on a QE2 cruise - is ideal for any celebration. ...

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

25 Best Boat Name Puns - The L Magazine

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The L Magazine

25 Best Boat Name Puns
The L Magazine
We named it the QETOP20, but it proved much too expensive to maintain, staff and run, so we sold it to some cruise company, who shortened the name to QE2, ...

Monday, May 24, 2010

Catching the cruising bug: Hunter Davies takes to the high seas in the Middle East - Daily Mail

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Daily Mail

Catching the cruising bug: Hunter Davies takes to the high seas in the Middle East
Daily Mail
In Dubai, we were just another cruise liner arriving, but in Bandar Abbas we were a bit of an event, with crowds on the quayside taking photos of us and ...

RAY ALAN. VOICE OF LORD CHARLES. IS DEAD AGES 79 - Express.co.uk

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RAY ALAN. VOICE OF LORD CHARLES. IS DEAD AGES 79
Express.co.uk
... even performed with Laurel and Hardy in 1954. By the 1970s he was a regular face on TV and in later life entertained thousands of guests on the QE2 liner.

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British ventriloquist Ray Alan dies at age 79 - Wikinews

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British ventriloquist Ray Alan dies at age 79
Wikinews
Later in his career he worked as an entertainer of the QE2 Cruise ship. He stopped work in 2008 due to ill health. Peter Pritchard, Alan's agent for 30 ...

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Ray Alan - Telegraph.co.uk

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Ray Alan
Telegraph.co.uk
Alan's career became more low-key as he moved into the worlds of cruise ship entertainment and corporate events. In recent years he had three thrillers ...

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Ventriloquist Ray Alan dies - Spoonfed

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Ventriloquist Ray Alan dies
Spoonfed
He was a regular on variety shows for 30 years, and then became a popular cruise ship entertainer, most notably on the QE2. In 2008, he retired from show ...

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Ray Alan dies - Chortle

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Chortle

Ray Alan dies
Chortle
He was a regular on TV variety shows and panel games into the Eighties, and in later years was a cruise-ship entertainer, working on the QE2. ...

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Saturday, May 22, 2010

A Silversea Middle Eastern cruise holiday from Dubai converts Hunter Davies - Daily Mail

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Daily Mail

A Silversea Middle Eastern cruise holiday from Dubai converts Hunter Davies
Daily Mail
In Dubai, we were just another cruise liner arriving, but in Bandar Abbas we were a bit of an event, with crowds on the quayside taking photos of us and ...

Friday, May 21, 2010

The stars come out for the launch of the latest super ships - Vancouver Sun

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The stars come out for the launch of the latest super ships
Vancouver Sun
Queen Elizabeth will replace the QE2. According to the builders, the new liner is positioned to recreate the golden era of cruising and pay tribute to past ...

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Stars are shining day and night - Montreal Gazette

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Stars are shining day and night
Montreal Gazette
Queen Elizabeth will replace the QE2. According to the builders, the new liner is positioned to recreate the golden era of cruising. ...

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Star-studded launches - Ottawa Citizen

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Star-studded launches
Ottawa Citizen
Queen Elizabeth will replace the QE2. According to the builders, the new liner is positioned to recreate the golden era of cruising and pay tribute to past ...

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Man spent stolen will cash on QE2cruise - Coventry Telegraph

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Man spent stolen will cash on QE2cruise
Coventry Telegraph
A will-writer who stole tens of thousands of pounds from a dead man's estate, spending it on a cruise on the QE2 and gambling, has been jailed for two and a ...

Cruise lines bringing out the big names for ship launches - Regina Leader-Post

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Cruise lines bringing out the big names for ship launches
Regina Leader-Post
Queen Elizabeth will replace the QE2. According to the builders, the new liner is positioned to recreate the golden era of cruising and pay tribute to past ...

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Will-writer stole thousands from dead man's estate - Peterborough Today

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Will-writer stole thousands from dead man's estate
Peterborough Today
A will-writer from Northampton who stole tens of thousands of pounds from a dead man's estate, spending it on a cruise on the QE2 and gambling, ...

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Will-writer stole from dead man's estate - Independent

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Will-writer stole from dead man's estate
Independent
A will-writer who stole tens of thousands of pounds from a dead man's estate, spending it on a cruise on the QE2 and ...

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QM2 couple reunited with camera - BBC News

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BBC News

QM2 couple reunited with camera
BBC News
A cruise ship passenger who dropped her camera into the Atlantic ocean has been reunited with her holiday photographs. Fourteen months after it fell ...

Linley artwork for Cunard ship - Mirror.co.uk (blog)

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Mirror.co.uk (blog)

Linley artwork for Cunard ship
Mirror.co.uk (blog)
No official announcement has been made on who will officially name the new ship, but it is likely that the Queen, who launched the QE2 in 1967, will perform ...

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LOOKING BACK: The Joe Loss Orchestra, 80 years and still in the mood - Newmarket Journal

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LOOKING BACK: The Joe Loss Orchestra, 80 years and still in the mood
Newmarket Journal
Todd's career has seen him travel the world, playing on board the world-famous, prestigious ocean liner, the QE2, flagship of the Cunard Line for nearly 40 ...

Monday, May 17, 2010

Ports and Bows column for May 17, 2010. - Canada.com

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Ports and Bows column for May 17, 2010.
Canada.com
Queen Elizabeth will replace the QE2. According to the builders, the new liner is positioned to recreate the golden era of cruising and pay tribute to past ...

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Who's Cruising Into the World Cup? - CruiseCritic.co.uk

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Who's Cruising Into the World Cup?
CruiseCritic.co.uk
To this day, QE2 remains in Dubai's Port Rashid. Are you planning to cruise during the World Cup? Are you having a football-themed party onboard? ...

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Who's Cruising Into the World Cup? - Cruise Critic

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Cruise Critic

Who's Cruising Into the World Cup?
Cruise Critic
To this day, QE2 remains in Dubai's Port Rashid. Are you planning to cruise during the World Cup? Are you having a football-themed party onboard? ...

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Are cockroaches the nastiest crawlies of all? - Times Online

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Are cockroaches the nastiest crawlies of all?
Times Online
In 1991 there was an outbreak of them on the ocean liner the QE2. • In 1996 roaches caused a diplomatic row as Britain began to hand over Hong Kong to China ...

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Great Liners at War, by Stephen Harding - Strategy Page

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Great Liners at War, by Stephen Harding
Strategy Page
A history of the military service of ocean liners since the mid-nineteenth century, from the Great Eastern to the QE2. Although each of the nine chapters ...

Friday, May 7, 2010

Harrods changes ownership - still not British owned - Gadling (blog)

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Harrods changes ownership - still not British owned
Gadling (blog)
The Harrods brand name is attached to more than just the Knightsbridge store - Harrods also operates smaller stores at airports, and on the QE2 cruise liner ...

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History of Harrods department store - BBC News

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History of Harrods department store
BBC News
By 2000, the Harrods empire had expanded to take in outlets at airports and on the QE2 cruise ship. Following the death of his son, Dodi, and Diana, ...

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TOP CRUISES - Mirror.co.uk

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TOP CRUISES
Mirror.co.uk
A plan to move the QE2 from her retirement home in Dubai to South Africa for this year's football World Cup fell through but there's already talk about ...

Saturday, May 1, 2010

GYPSY OF THE MONTH: Kristine Bendul of 'Come Fly Away' - Broadway World

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Broadway World

GYPSY OF THE MONTH: Kristine Bendul of 'Come Fly Away'
Broadway World
With what you have accomplished and what you have, why are you coming back to a cruise ship? You should be in New York or LA” So instead of setting sail, ...

Cut out to be a great father - Herald Sun

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Cut out to be a great father
Herald Sun
The cardboard image, which shows him holding a bottle of champagne and laughing while on a cruise in 2007, was a guest at his funeral. ...

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